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Various minor updates and textual clarifications

v1.2

Michelle Williams

“InAcademia Steering Group”/”InAcademia SG” to “InAcademia Steering Committee”/”InAcademia SC” to reflect the presentation given to GEANT General Assembly, NRENs/Federation Operators and REFEDS, and to avoid confusion as the project team created a ‘steering group’ for the transition to service, and we’d prefer not to imply a connection with the two groups.

v1.2

Peter Schover

Clarified “the organisation that is liable for providing the InAcademia service” and “Service Operator” to be GEANT Association as it’s currently confusing. Was intended to be generic to avoid the Constitution being changed if Service Operator changes, but that approach creates confusion. 

v1.2

Peter Schober

“InAcademia Service Operator)” should be abbreviated to “Service Operator” 

v1.2

Peter Schober

“InAcademia Service Owner (SO)” abbreviated to “Service Owner”

v1.2

Peter Schober

Added “The definition of ‘commercial’ refers to the nature of the organisation itself, as opposed to the nature of the use case; that is, use cases where commercial organisations choose to offer discounts to students as 'loss leader' (without making a profit from that sale specifically) sales shall also be considered in the scope of the InAcademia Commercial Edition.” to clarify definition of Commercial Edition

v1.2

Peter Schober

Removed the following from Glossary as they are defined and explained within each relevant section of the document:

• Eligibility Criteria: The criteria defined within  ‘Section 3 of this document: Eligibility criteria for using InAcademia.
• InAcademia: Service that offers third parties an easy, secure and privacy-preserving way to let a user validate their affiliation with an academic institution. 
• InAcademia Commercial edition: InAcademia service offering for Merchants that commercially profit from selling services to users, or that enables Merchants to protect their revenue or improve cost efficiency by requesting users from the academic community to prove their entitlement to access services or products targeted at the academic community, or to benefit from specific discounts or special offers. 
• InAcademia Community edition: InAcademia service offering for not-for-profit Merchants that offer services to the academic community for education and research purposes.
• InAcademia website: Official InAcademia website available at https://inacademia.org

v1.2

Peter Schober

Removed implication from Service Owner definition that it can delegate its governance responsibilities.

v1.2

Peter Schober

Clarified the voting and nomination process; introduced the concept where the number of Steering Committee members may be increased.

v1.2

Femke Morsch

Promoted “(delegating to other organisations where appropriate)” to the introductory section of the Service Operator’s responsibilities, to clarify that whilst GEANT Association is ultimately responsible for the service, the operations will be carried out by NRENs under the GEANT Project for the foreseeable future.

v1.2

Peter Schober

Replaced ‘licensor’ with Service Operator

v1.2

Pål Axelsson

Corrections to minor typographical errors requested via v1.1

v2.0

Resulting from a unanimous decision at InAcademia Steering Committee meeting dated 2326.03.2021:

• Section 2.1.2: New participating federations will routinely be invited to become Steering Committee members; the then current Steering Committee will monitor the total number of members to ensure that it supports efficient decision making.
• Section 2.1.3: If the number of Participating Federation members of the Steering Committee is an even number, the Service Owner will abstain from voting.

Other minor updates:

• Subheadings in section 2.1
• Included "invited observer" as defined term.
• Added 'member of participating or non-participating federation operator upon invitation' to bulleted list of non-voting observers under section 2.1.3 Voting.
• Created new section in order to allow the links to be shared to the published Constitution without breaking the link previously shared.